Principal Software Engineer

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks's SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) group is looking for a seasoned and accomplished engineer with experience in developing cloud-distributed applications to fill a technical leadership position in the SD-WAN team. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various ground-breaking technologies in the SD-WAN area. You will work with a multi-functional team of engineers to design and develop systems for solving interesting problems in the SDWAN area. 

Your Impact

• Work in a small and fast-paced team to solve important customer problems and deliver the most impactful results
• Contribute to all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, and design, through implementation and test
• Proactively identify product features for improvement and innovation
• Innovate new product features based on customer feedback
• Developing distributed applications that use messaging infrastructures and experience working with them is a plus

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8+ years of experience, with a BS or MS degree, developing large-scale distributed applications using service-oriented architectures or equivalent military experience required
• Strong experience in developing Python and Java-based microservices using REST APIs
• Experience developing applications with a DB, especially MongoDB with appropriate drivers and abstraction layers
• Experience developing appropriate caching layers for scale and performance of database systems
• Experience developing distributed applications that use messaging infrastructures like Kafka
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services, like AWS/GCP, is a plus
• Good understanding of data processing pipeline designs – including ingestion, ETL, queries, query optimizations, large scale storage is a plus 
• Experience with building and running containerized applications in distributed environments like Kubernetes is a plus
• Strong passion and experience in troubleshooting, debugging complex systems and possess excellent problem-solving techniques

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of SD WAN products – connected directly to the mission of providing world class SASE solutions. We are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about SD WAN. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate